Sonic Arts Union Film Screening-Music with Roots in the Aether-Gordon Mumma

Music with Roots in the Aether is a seven-part series of video portraits of notable American composers, in interviews staged as “landscapes” and in performance. Sonic Arts Union Retrospective features the segments on David Behrman, Gordon Mumma, and Alvin Lucier, engaging the composers in friendly and insightful conversations and showing performances of their work.

Gordon Mumma is interviewed on a football field (after a brief bit of bike repair), followed by a performance of Some Voltage Drop: Simulcast, Schoolwork, Telepos/Foxbat.

Ars Nova Workshop presents a new commission created and performed by Nels Cline, lead guitarist for the band Wilco.An expansion of Cline’s 2016 recording Lovers (Blue Note Records), the new commission is inspired by research trips that led Cline on an inspiring journey through significant Philadelphia moments, artifacts, and sites.